Building on a series of recent studies that challenge the universality of sweet liking, here we
review the evidence for multiple sweet-liking phenotypes which strongly suggest, humans …

Taste hedonics drive food choices, and food choices affect weight maintenance. Despite
this, the idea that hyper-palatability of sweet foods is linked to obesity development has …

Background Legislation aimed at reducing sugar intake assumes that sweet-liking drives
overconsumption. However, evidence that a greater liking for sweet taste is associated with …

Taste hedonics is a well-documented driver of food consumption. The role of sweetness in
directing ingestive behavior is largely rooted in biology. One can then intuit that individual …

Introduction: While sweet taste perception is a potential determinant of feeding behavior in
obesity, the supporting evidence is inconsistent and is typically associated with …

Human ingestive behavior depends on myriad factors, including both sensory and non-
sensory determinants. Of the sensory determinants, sweet taste is a powerful stimulus and …

Factors associated with sweetness preference are multi-faceted and incredibly complex. A
scoping review was undertaken to identify determinants of sweetness preference in humans …

Background: Use of nonnutritive sweeteners (NNSs), which provide sweet taste with few to
no calories, has increased, but data on whether children's hedonic responses to NNSs differ …

Two distinct patterns of sweet taste liking have been described: one showing a peak liking
response in the mid-range of sucrose concentrations and the other showing a monotonic …

Sweetness is a sensation that contributes to the palatability of foods, which is the primary
driver of food choice. Thus, understanding how to measure the appeal (hedonics) of …